 If those men who to be lovers pretendBehaved more faithfully and did not lie,And dreaded to deceive or to offend,Then women might not choose to pass them by.But each man's heart's a fickle butterflyWhich can alight on one just a short while.Can it be wrong in this case to beguile? "The Letter of Cupid", line 267; vol. 1, p. 83; translation from Thelma S. Fenster and Mary Carpenter Erler (eds.) Poems of Cupid, God of Love (Leiden: Brill, 1990) p. 191.